I've been rereading some of these old messages and thinking about them again. Drew has promoted Code Complete and I, out of curiosity, went to see what the...
Allred, Mark J
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Mar 24, 1999 7:30 pm
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I think that McConell and Zachman are talking about two very different things. McConnell is suggesting a programming technique that will make code more or less...
Kelly VanDusen
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Mar 25, 1999 10:16 pm
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Such a language / environment already exists. It's known as "001" and is from Hamilton Technologies, Inc. More info. available online at HTI's site at...
Tyrone Kelley
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Mar 26, 1999 3:03 pm
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Wow! What a great level of discourse! I must steal some billable time for my 2 cents <g>. First I have to agree with Mark, that Zachman and McConnel *are*...
Drew Georgopulos
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Mar 26, 1999 4:28 pm
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It's been done. Forget XLM+DCOM+anything else. "001" is the way to go. No need to get a rudimentary design and then move to a product like Rose; 001 is one...
Tyrone Kelley
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Mar 29, 1999 5:05 pm
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... 001 is based on Margret Hamilton's Development Before the Fact™ paradigm. It has an interesting concept - produce error-free designs and you produce ...
Kelly VanDusen
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Mar 31, 1999 4:24 am
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FYI: Margaret Hamilton has a brand new book coming out from McGraw Hill. In other press, author Jessica Keyes described the potential of 001 and DBTF in a...
Tyrone Kelley
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Mar 31, 1999 3:36 pm
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Tyrone - What does the 001 language look like? Is it similar to ORM? How can ORM be integrated or play a part in an 001 modelling effort? Is there any free...
dennis_corbo@...
Apr 1, 1999 4:05 pm
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The April Issue of the Journal of Conceptual Modeling (JCM) is now online at http://www.inconcept.com/JCM/. The JCM is a completely free resource dedicated to...
Scot A. Becker
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Apr 8, 1999 4:34 pm
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Hi All, In previous articles, I have discussed the technical merits of using the ORM approach. I am thinking about another article, taking another approach. In...
Scot A. Becker
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Apr 10, 1999 6:29 pm
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I've been looking at ORM for a while now and at least one reason why ORM isn't more popular is perfectly clear: No one has created a set of tools (leveled...
roy.wilsker@...
Apr 11, 1999 3:36 pm
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In the April JCM article section comparing UML and ORM modeling of aggregation, Dr. Halpin indicates that "ORM, as well as many versions of ER, includes no...
John Hanna
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Apr 11, 1999 3:47 pm
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Roy, Being one of the people who teachs ORM, (as do all people here at ICM) I understand you issue. I will put together such an article with help of my...
Patrick Hallock
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Apr 11, 1999 8:52 pm
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... the ORM ... In ... They ... supports it ... "tried ... to be ... the ... The reasons listed seem to have a bias that "ORM is perfect, and people just don't...
John Hanna
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Apr 12, 1999 4:29 pm
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Scott, First, thank you for JCM. I read it regularly, and recommend it to my associates. I know that some of them also read it. In response to your query: I...
Allred, Mark J
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Apr 12, 1999 5:03 pm
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Hi John, Thanks for the response! ... It is, isn't it? <s> ... OK, fair enough. Any ideas as to what these might be? ... Hmmm.... aside from controlled...
Scot A. Becker
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Apr 12, 1999 5:20 pm
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I think John has a good point here. In fact, the "ORM religion" perspective is a large part of the reason why ORM-based analysis is often rejected at our...
Cuyler, David S
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Apr 12, 1999 5:24 pm
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Hi Dave, Thanks for the response! ... Absolutely. In fact, after the initial modeling is done, I primarily use ER/physical diagrams because I forget column...
Scot A. Becker
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Apr 12, 1999 5:39 pm
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I agree with most of what John and David have to say here. Personally, I find ORM far superior for conceptual data modeling, where the modeler communicates...
Terry Halpin
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Apr 12, 1999 8:08 pm
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My instinctive response to John's interrogation is that the role labels are part of the notation. However, on further consideration, I am aware of some eighty...
Allred, Mark J
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Apr 13, 1999 2:01 am
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On Monday, April 12, 1999 at 22:0 Mark Allred said ... This raises an interesting point. When I asked - "Shouldn't the ORM role terms (e.g. for aggregation) be...
John Hanna
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Apr 13, 1999 2:34 pm
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If I read John's comments correctly, he's suggesting that an organization might promote an internal terminology standard for treating certain predicate names...
Terry Halpin
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Apr 13, 1999 6:41 pm
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Roy is right. I have spent a lot of time trying to get people to understand how to read and identify with the notation. When they look at it, it seems too...
Allred, Mark J
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Apr 13, 1999 6:41 pm
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Hi, all~ Here's a little challenge for your thinking caps. I want to reopen the discussion of the Zachman framework as representing either a refinement or a...
Allred, Mark J
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Apr 14, 1999 1:16 am
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John - Appropriate naming is important, but, I also think that constraints may play a role for certain types of aggregation. In fact, you can use ORM...
dennis_corbo@...
Apr 14, 1999 11:49 pm
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It seems to me that with ORM we at least get significant indicators of aggregation without special constraints or standardized predicate phrasing. In a typical...
Cuyler, David S
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Apr 16, 1999 3:10 am
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Is anyone interested in holding scheduled internet chat sessions? It would be an interesting way to discuss JCM related topics, answer questions, discuss...
Scot A. Becker
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Apr 16, 1999 3:15 pm
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If it is important to know, at a conceptual level of understanding, that a set of roles played by an object represent an aggregation, you could probably do one...
dennis_corbo@...
Apr 16, 1999 5:55 pm
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Dave's intuitions are at least partly correct. As I discussed in Part 8 of my UML/ORM series for the JCM, there are some connections between ORM constraints...
Terry Halpin
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Apr 16, 1999 5:55 pm
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There are several definitions of aggregation which make Dave's observations valid in regard to collecting attributes about some concept. My Webster's...